Dissatisfaction Quotes

135 quotes by 122 authors

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction. — Jay Electronica
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety,… — Jacques Monod
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae… — Sigmar Gabriel
Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and… — Jennifer Young
Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach… — Marcus Buckingham
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our… — Emile M. Cioran
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it… — Pope John Paul II
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream. — Dalai Lama
If the wine is not good, then throw it out! — Michelangelo
The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world. — Norman Mailer
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre… — Vincent Van Gogh
From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel… — Emile Zola
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If… — Thomas Merton
I think I have made just one picture that I really like... — Ingmar Bergman
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature. — Paul Cezanne
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not. — Audre Lorde
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of… — Lucian Freud
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great… — Lucian Freud
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just… — Philip Guston
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego

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